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McDonnell, Patricia Joan was born on March 30, 1956 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Robert Frances and Joan Ruth (Fortune) McDonnell.
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Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), one of the most important artists from the American early modern period, was part of the heady group surrounding Alfred Stieglitz and his galleries in the early decades of the twentieth century. While New York and Stieglitz acted as a base of support and friendship for Hartley, he constantly shifted from place to place, living abroad and in varying locales across the country. Marsden Hartley: An American Modern traces the artists’s movements and the evolution in his thinking and art. For the first 40 years of his life, Hartley pursued the ideals and philosophical principles of American transcendentalism. He shifted radically from his approach after the First World War. Instead of embracing subjectivity, he honored rational intellect and objectivity. Toward the end of his life, he returned to a passionate belief in the subjective self. Patricia McDonnell analyzes Hartley’s beliefs and artistic practice in the context of the cultural and political realities that deeply affected the man and his times This completely redesigned version of the catalogue published by the Weisman Art Museum in 1997 features an expanded section of color plates.
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(In the early twentieth century while French achievement d...)
In the early twentieth century while French achievement dominated modern painting, important American painters such as Marsden Hartley were working in Berlin. Their disillusionment with French innovation and subsequent embrace of German expressionism brought the premises of American early modernism into sharp focus. Painting Berlin Stories examines the philosophical goals and cultural context of these American painters who discovered they shared a common language of ideas with their contemporaries in expressionist Berlin.
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McDonnell, Patricia Joan was born on March 30, 1956 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Robert Frances and Joan Ruth (Fortune) McDonnell.
Bachelor in German Studies cum laude, Mills College, 1978. Master of Arts in Art History, Brown University, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Brown University, 1991.
Professional training coordinator, Art Museum Association American, San Francisco, 1978-1983; assistant to director, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School Design, Providence, 1984; curator, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, since 1991. Grant reviewer National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1993. Board directors Nash Art Gallery, Minneapolis, since 1993, advising committee Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonné, New York City, since 1993.
(Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), one of the most important ar...)
(In the early twentieth century while French achievement d...)
Member College Art Association(board member), Association Art Museum Curators, Association Historians of America Art.
Married Gregory Joseph Pluth, November 1977. 1 child, Kate Marie.